Knock Off Industrial Side Table

Last week my bloggy friend Liz at Liz Marie Blog let me share this project with her readers. I love Liz’s blog and her style is just amazing! I’m so grateful she was willing to let me hijack her blog for the day! 😉 If you don’t know Liz’s blog, be sure to check it out {here} – you’ll be glad you did!

As I mentioned a few weeks ago on my blog, I’m really into the industrial look right now. I seriously can’t get enough of it! While I was playing around online the other day showing my husband all these cool industrial tables, he got an idea in his head. Why not build one ourselves? One thing led to another and now we have our own custom industrial end table for our living room!

Here’s a picture of our inspiration table. We loved it, but at $695, we thought why not just try to build it ourselves and see what we could come up with.

We are SO pleased with the result! Although this was no cheap DIY (it cost nearly $300), it was definitely less expensive than buying the original table, we got to do a fun project together, and it is custom made just for us!

I cut out numbers on my Silhouette Cameo, traced them, and then colored them in with metallic craft paint. When the paint was dry, I distressed them to give a more aged look to keep in line with the rest of the piece.

We didn’t end up using casters because we couldn’t find any that we loved and we really liked the look without them once we put it all together.

I’ll go into more detail in my tutorial (coming soon!), but we used IKEA’s NUMERAR oak butcher block and distressed galvanized plumbing supplies to get the look of the inspiration table.

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I LOVE this!!! Honestly, I was thinking that it was such a great idea that you didn’t use casters! Can you imagine how dangerous that would be with a baby who is starting to pull up on everything? I LOVE your version much better!!

That turned out beautifully! I actually have some numerar counter scraps in my garage that we were planning to use as cutting boards. but they’re SO heavy; I might have to find a furniture project for them instead–gread idea!

So many project I want to do and now I’ve got another!! Trying to find things I (or hubs) can get out adult son with autism interested in doing, build job skills, maybe find a new passion he can use in employment. I love IKEA butcherblock. It’s in my kitchen and craft room (with glass on top). Be pinning this. And I can find you easily that way. I can only subscribe to so many and I’m over the top now :-). Gotta have time to do sometthing.
Janet

Hi Allison! Beautiful job! My Hubby and I are building 2 Industrial desks for our son, this post is very helpful in our design process! Congrats on being posted in Dwelling Gawker too BTW, you must be over the moon!

Found you through the Savy Southern Style link party! Your table looks KILLER. I especially love the numbered stencil. I tried making a similar table and mine was a major fail. Major. You’re making me want to give it another shot!

I love looking at diy ‘knock offs’ and comparing the two. When I was comparing your table to the inspiration table, I thought your table was nice, but I favored the original…then…I realized I had the two tables mixed up. Your table is much more attractive than the ‘source’ table, hands down. Your photo and décor confused me, it too is much nicer than the source…KUDOS to you and the MR!

This is super cute and I plan making 2 these as bedside tables. However these can be made much cheaper with pine wood and achieve the same look. If I were making a kitchen island then I would use butcher block. Glad I found your blog!